{"id":20942,"date":"2010-07-19T10:42:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T15:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=20942"},"modified":"2010-07-20T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T16:13:18","slug":"authorities-investigate-fatal-industrial-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=20942","title":{"rendered":"Victim&#8217;s Name Released in Fatal Industrial Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=20943\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20943\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/07\/96_coal_conveyor_belt_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"96_coal_conveyor_belt_2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-20943\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 The identity of a man killed in a conveyor belt accident Saturday morning in Tyler has been released. Eric Ferguson,  41, Big Sandy, was employed by C and C Trans Load Company. Tyler Police say they responded to a call in the 1000 block of East Commerce after an incident involving a man trapped in a conveyor belt. Officers say Ferguson became trapped while loading sand like material from a railroad train hopper car onto a conveyor belt into a container mounted on the back of tractor trailer truck. The Tyler Fire Department was able to eventually free him and he was taken to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead. All details and witness statements of this incident indicate that this was an accidental death.  OSHA officials will also conduct an investigation.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 The identity of a man killed in a conveyor belt accident Saturday morning in Tyler has been released. Eric Ferguson, 41, Big Sandy, was employed by C and C Trans Load Company. Tyler Police say they responded to a call in the 1000 block of East Commerce after an incident involving a man &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=20942\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Victim&#8217;s Name Released in Fatal Industrial Accident<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 10:23:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20942"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21448,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20942\/revisions\/21448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}